Gratitude

LORD help me be a grateful girl, not a jealous girl.

Let my voice be heard in the morning!
Let my prayer of gratitude rise to you and adoration be for you alone.

Help me be a grateful girl.

In the quiet

In the stillness

Help me be a grateful girl

stop scrolling 

stop thinking

stop over thinking

Help me be a grateful girl

I have much to be grateful for

I do not want to grumble and mumble and say words that are jumbled

I desire to be filled with gratitude for your sovereign steadfast love which is truly better than life

Help me be a grateful girl

I think of the missionaries no running water

I think of the cancer patients some a dear son or daughter

Help me be a grateful girl

For food in the fridge clothes on my back

Always praise God! There is food to fill a lunch sack

Help me be a grateful girl

Longing eyes are not just in the scriptures as David glared at Bathsheba

I can long too

Long for the past when my kids were small and I had so much tending to do

Help me be a grateful girl

Longing for a weekend getaway with my husband

or to be able to say "Happy Birthday" out loud

longing for unlocked doors or to walk freely with Isaac and Olivia in a crowd

Help me be a grateful girl

I love you LORD my lips shall sing, even with a bite mark on my arm a permanent tattoo ring

Help me be a grateful girl

I am grieved as I look at these medications for my son's inner mind, to derail seizures in his head

Help me see with your eyes dear LORD for one day one day no more tears on my bed

LORD help me be a grateful girl

Let my voice be heard in the morning, at noon and in the twilight of my life

Let my prayers of gratitude rise to you and sing for the Cross crushed all these temporary pain-filled trials and strife

LORD help me

Mold me 

Shape me

to a grace-filled girl